1881: An imperfect recollection of an Old English Folk Song much embellished. Young Nancy is saved from deception and danger by an unexpected man in a red tunic.
It begins on a hot street with a sausage stall and a boy nobody wanted. Liu Xuan is eighteen, bruised, and already half-broken by a bully who only hits him. Then a woman steps into his life like smoke and silk—Liu Ruyan, the ice-queen CEO everyone fears, and the mother who has been searching for him since the day he was stolen from her arms. She does not only take him home. She feeds him, dresses him, and opens a private world of money, systems, and hunger. What should have been a reunion bec
There was a new girl working the closing shift at the kids' fun zone. I was the shift manager, so I could tell her to climb through the plastic tubes and clean up whatever disgusting stuff the kids left. I discovered how much fun you could have in the tubes.
A Story in the Happily Ever...For Now Universe
Michelle takes a trip to visit her best friend. When she sees her best friend's son for the first time in three years, sparks fly. What woman can resist a hot, young college kid who lusts after her?
When I was fifteen, my father remarried after being a widower for several years. I suddenly found myself with two stepsisters, vivacious twins a year younger than I was, full of energy and curiosity. It took me a while to go from being an only child with one parent to being part of a busy family, but once I adjusted, I found that having stepsisters wasn’t a bad thing at all.
This is the story of an unintentional interracial affair between a young engaged Denver schoolteacher/waitress and an older married Sergeant/piano player during the Vietnam War.